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Antibody directed against steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) was a gift from D.B.
These compounds can activate some nuclear receptors including steroidogenic factor 1 [ 44 ] and LXR, which may be partially responsible for their biological activities [ 45 46 ] . Cholesterol oxides are inhibitors of HMG-CoA reductase, the key enzyme of cholesterol biosynthesis pathway [ 47 ] . The ability to bind to an intracellular receptor, oxysterol binding protein, may be responsible for their inhibition of cholesterol biosynthesis [ 48 49 ] . It should be noted that addition of cholesterol does not prevent cholesterol oxide induced cell death, which leads to the suggestion that inhibition of cholesterol synthesis is not the cause of cholesterol oxide induced PCD [ 50 51 ] . The critical events that result in cholesterol oxide induced cytotoxicity remain to be determined.
i.e. apoptosis), is initiated by prostaglandin F 2α (PGF 2α ) in vivo [ 4 ] . However, this process can only be partially recapitulated in vitro using primary cultures of steroidogenic cells.
The microvasculature of the CL is thought to be the first structure to undergo degeneration via apoptosis during luteolysis [ 2 8 ] . In contrast to information available on steroidogenic cells of the CL, a gap exists in our understanding of the factors and their associated signaling pathways that initiate apoptosis in the vascular component of the CL.
One receptor for TNFα, TNF-RI is expressed throughout the bovine estrous cycle [ 46 ] , but is more abundantly expressed by the endothelial cell component than in steroidogenic cells [ 29 ] .
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